Best Film
Ba wang bie ji / Farewell My Concubine
Carlito's Way
The Fugitive
Groundhog Day
In the Name of the Father
Jurassic Park
Naked
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Schindler's List
Trois couleurs: Bleu / Three Colours: Blue

Best Film
Les diaboliques
Du rififi chez les hommes / Rififi
East of Eden
The Ladykillers
Muerte de un ciclista / Death of a Cyclist
The Night of the Hunter
Ordet
Pather Panchali
Rebel Without a Cause
Sommarnattens leende / Smiles of a Summer Night

I'm considering paring down the game a bit, to make it less effort for both me in calculating nominees/results and yourselves in voting, as numbers are dwindling & some categories get very few nominations. my plan is:

I agree with Frbrown about supporting actor and actress. I think Documentary should be kept as well especially for later years. Maybe remove it for earlier years, like pre-1950s? And maybe we'll get more responses after the documentary challenge and list.

Writing, music, cinematography are dispensable as far as I'm concerned. I don't think many of us are really paying attention to technical stuff.

I actually like all of the categories, even if I sometimes struggle to fill the nominations (especially the earlier years). If you want to ease the workload on yourself, I propose having some thresholds.

For each category, have the threshold be either

the number of users who have a least one nomination in that category

the number of nominations in that category

the number of nominees in that category

the number of nominees in that category with at least X points (probably 10 for BP and 5 for the rest)

This way, people can still nominate as they see fit, but if there isn't enough in a certain category in a given year, you can either disqualify the category (little support across the board) or declare a winner unanimously (when there's overwhelming support for one nominee but not enough other candidates to field a full ballot; this happened in documentary on one of the recent ballots, 1927 maybe?). Or, in those weak categories, you can have 3 nominees on the final ballot instead of 5 (you sometimes do this already).

Fergenaprido on Apr 27 2015, 06:53:39 AM wrote:I actually like all of the categories, even if I sometimes struggle to fill the nominations (especially the earlier years). If you want to ease the workload on yourself, I propose having some thresholds.

For each category, have the threshold be either

the number of users who have a least one nomination in that category

the number of nominations in that category

the number of nominees in that category

the number of nominees in that category with at least X points (probably 10 for BP and 5 for the rest)

This way, people can still nominate as they see fit, but if there isn't enough in a certain category in a given year, you can either disqualify the category (little support across the board) or declare a winner unanimously (when there's overwhelming support for one nominee but not enough other candidates to field a full ballot; this happened in documentary on one of the recent ballots, 1927 maybe?). Or, in those weak categories, you can have 3 nominees on the final ballot instead of 5 (you sometimes do this already).

I kinda do this informally anyway - formalising it would add to the workload as then I'd have to be more careful and consistent! it generally just depends on how the ties fall as to whether I cut down the number of nominees or not. sometimes 5 pts will get you in, other times there's a big tie on 5pts & I cut down to 3 or 4 nominees.

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but okay consensus seems to be to keep it much as it is. I guess we've come this far, it'd be wrong to change it now!

Best Film
And Then There Were None
Brief Encounter
Detour
Les enfants du paradis
Leave Her to Heaven
The Lost Weekend
Mildred Pierce
Rome città aperta / Rome, Open City
Scarlet Street
The Spiral Staircase